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Venice – City of Lovers

30th December 2017 0

ARRIVING in Venice by plane in the dead of night is a tantalising mystery. I was whisked from Marco Polo airport to the nearby pier in a matter of minutes by my ‘meet and greet’ […]

Luxury Cruising – This is the life

30th December 2017 0

What’s it like on a luxury ship? Well, there are butlers in tuxedos, monogrammed stationery and Jacuzzis-for-two on private balconies. But while cruise lines make big boasts about their 5-star service, the man they really […]

Cruising

Diamond Princess – Northern Asia

Turning Japanese – dare to bare in the bathhouse on Diamond Princess Making promises over dinner and a few wines is OK but when it comes to agreeing to go naked in a Japanese bathhouse, [...]
Cruising

Reefer madness – lazy days on the Great Barrier Reef

Coral Expeditions to the Reef – Endless days of snorkelling bliss, as long as you’re wearing a stinger suit The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 2300 kilometres along the Queensland coast and is, in fact, [...]
Cruising

Ocean Endeavour – Greenland & Canada

Greenland has about 150km of roads and none of them link any two towns. However, it has dozens of fiords and hundreds of waterways, meaning almost everyone has a boat. So the best way for [...]
Ships

Norwegian Star – On board to welcome the new Millennium

I WAS one of the first people to celebrate the dawn of the new Millennium and one of the few still standing seven hours later when the sun rose over the International Date Line on [...]
Ships

Star Flyer – my favourite cruise

“IT’S six o’clock on a languid afternoon in Thailand’s Andaman Sea. The sails of the tall ship Star Flyer are unfurled in the breeze. Volunteers eagerly step forward to help hoist them up the four [...]

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Caroline Gladstone

Travel Writer - Cruise Specialist - Features - Guidebooks - Editing

Venice – City of Lovers

Luxury Cruising – This is the life

Diamond Princess – Northern Asia

Reefer madness – lazy days on the Great Barrier Reef

Ocean Endeavour – Greenland & Canada

Norwegian Star – On board to welcome the new Millennium

Star Flyer – my favourite cruise

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